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13-08-05, 11:27 PM
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Usually done when someone is trying to be smart e.g. recently someone on here typed 'oh contrar' (or somthing like that) instead of 'au contraire'. Also some dumb girl I was chatting to on MSN was trying to be cool (presumably) and said 'chow' instead of 'ciao'. Lol, isn't it safer to stick to what you know rather than try too hard to be cool or whatever?
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Well yes and no, vocabulary is there to be experimented with and maybe give whatever text your writing some more colour and depth, sometimes posters like the "Oh contrar" person will know what it means but not know how to spell it but the meaning is clear.My personal bug-bear is when people use a word in the completely wrong context but as long as they dont mindbeing corrected occasionally its all good.
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My other bug-bear is ect for etc........but im not gonna go there.
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Er-hem, I dont wish to be pedantic but I think the title of your thread shouldread "Using words/phrases/terms incorrectly".
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13-08-05, 11:35 PM
this is great, learning enlish from the English. niceone.gif
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13-08-05, 11:39 PM
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this is great, learning enlish from the English. niceone.gif
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But funnily enough he quoted French and Italian vernacular.
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14-08-05, 12:25 AM
You have to bear in mind that English is not the first language of every member of the forum.
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14-08-05, 12:37 AM
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You have to bear in mind that English is not the first language of every member of the forum.
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14-08-05, 02:25 AM
Remembering English spellings is bd enough, but having to remember French stupidity too. Give me a break.
Say la veebighairlol
yeah, it's supposed to be c'est something or other. Who cares?
Plenty of palefaces regard memorizing unimportant information as a sign of INTELLIGENCE. It is a sign of willingness to conform to the unimportant. A necessary part of their robot culture.
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14-08-05, 03:22 AM
The word I've seen used incorrectly the most is reactionary, which means someone opposed to change, but people think it's someone who reacts very quickly without thinking.
The english language is ****ed up sometimes
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14-08-05, 03:42 AM
Interesting.............
Yeah, I find its not how someone spells a word but what they mean, like some of you said. But I dont think its that they don't know how to spell the words, i think maybe they type the way they speak sometimes and they feel they dont need to be formal - maybe
Do you think its different from slang?.......well i suppose it is ennit cos slang has nothing to with bad spelling or not knowing how to spell or word properly...........or does it?.........
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14-08-05, 03:56 AM
If the English language made sense a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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14-08-05, 09:40 AM
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Also some dumb girl I was chatting to on MSN was trying to be cool (presumably) and said 'chow' instead of 'ciao'. Lol, isn't it safer to stick to what you know rather than try too hard to be cool or whatever?
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Chow.... are you sure she wasn't hungry? blkscholar
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14-08-05, 12:11 PM
I can put up with bad spelling, I can live with slang, but using wrong words/phrases/terms wrongly somehow bothers me the most!:?
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